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Birdsall & Akayan win EBL U16 Pairs

Congratulations to Cecilia Hazel Birdsall and Sam Akayan who won the EBL Under 16 Pairs on April 13 with a Cross-IMP average of +3.65 over 14 boards, almost double the score of the runners-up.

Updates from Aylesbury - April 2025

The latest instalment of Updates from Aylesbury, the monthly newsletter for Club and County Officials is now available to read via the link below: Updates from Aylesbury - 9th April 2025 All...

Cambridge B win Portland Bowl

The Portland Bowl Finals took place this weekend, 5th - 6th April 2025 at the famous Portland Club in London. In the semi-finals, Cambridge B beat Durham B by 156 IMPs and UCL A beat Imperial B...

SBU's online International Mixed Teams

Congratulations to Andrew McIntosh & Sara Moran, Tom Paske & Diana Nettleton, Nick Sandqvist & Nathalie Shashou, who came second in the recent online International Mixed Teams run by the Scottish...

Bridge Storyline on The Archers

The BBC Radio 4 show, The Archers will feature a new storyline involving learning and playing bridge. You can listen along on the BBC iPlayer or Radio 4, with the new storyline starting on Sunday...

Spring Foursomes

One of the great events in the English bridge calendar, the Spring Foursomes will be held over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend at the DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel, Bristol City Centre (2nd - 6th...

Entries Invited for Hubert Phillips Bowl

As a reminder, entries are invited for the Hubert Phillips Bowl. The knockout mixed teams-of-four championships of England. Named after the former EBU chairman, Hubert Phillips. Eight teams are...

David Carlisle

We are sad to report the death of David Carlisle, he played a single Camrose match in 1991 for Wales. He was secretary of the LCCBA (forerunner of the LMBA) and was also a bridge teacher for many...

National Pairs Regional Finals 2025

The Regional Finals of the National Pairs took place on 23rd March, with players taking part in one of five regions. The winners from each region were as follows. The Eastern Counties Regional...

2026 European Team Championships

The Selection Committee will shortly invite applications to participate in trials for the 2026 European Team Championships. The Open Trial will be a two stage pairs trial with a number of pairs...

England Win the Camrose 2025

In a photo finish, England win the Camrose on the last few boards! Congratulations to Graham Osborne, Frances Hinden, Neil Rosen, John Atthey, Chris Jagger & Derek Patterson, with NPC: Michael...

The EBU Welcomes two new staff members

We are pleased to welcome Mary Cousins and Stuart King who joined the staff this week. Mary has joined the Services Department as the new County & Membership Development Officer. Stuart has...

Ranked Masters Pairs Results 2025

Six pairs were victorious this weekend in the Ranked Masters Pairs, held online via RealBridge. The winners for all categories were as follows: In the combined Premier Grand Masters Pairs and...

EBL Winter Games Medallists

Congratulations to the DE BOTTON team (Antonio PALMA, Nicolai HEIBERG-EVENSTAD, Thor Erik HOFTANISKA, Artur MALINOWSKI) who won the bronze medal in the BAM Final A at the 2nd European Winter...

Stevens & Owen win OODGP Swiss Pairs

The second Online One-Day Green Pointed event for 2025 took place on Sunday 16th February. It was won by Nick Stevens & Clive Owen with a score of 110 VPs. In second place were Alan Wearmouth &...

Harrogate Spring Congress Results 2025

The Harrogate Spring Congress took place last weekend, the Swiss Teams was won by the team of Tom Gisborne, Sandy Davies, Matthew Kiggins, & Bazil Caygill ( pictured) with a score of 104 VPs. In...

London win Tollemache Cup

The Tollemache Cup (intercounty teams of eight) Final was held at the weekend and was won convincingly by London ( pictured ): David Bakhshi , Liam Sanderson , Nicola Smith , Brian Callaghan...

Online One-Day GP Event Winners for 2024

The Online One-Day GP Event series for 2024 has now concluded and the leaderboard has been finalised. Congratulations to the top three overall members: 1st - Ian Walsh 2nd - Jackie Davies 3rd -...

Lady Milne Trial Results

Congratulations to Dido Coley & Lily Kearney who won last weekend's Lady Milne trial, played at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club in London, their winning score was +68 IMPs. In second place were...

Teltscher Trophy Senior Trial Results

Congratulations to Patrick Shields & Richard Chamberlain ( pictured), who won the senior trials over the weekend of 10th - 12th January at York Bridge Club. Roger Bryant & Stephen Green ( picture...

Camrose 2025

The first weekend of the Camrose Trophy took place last weekend, hosted by the Scottish Bridge Union from 3rd-5th January at Adamton House Hotel, Prestwick, Scotland. The England team finished...

England U26 win DBV Youth Tournament

To celebrate 75 years of the Deutsche Bridge Verband (the German equivelant of the EBU), they have been running an online tournament over the weekend of 22-23 December, on RealBridge. Of the 16...

Year End Congress Winners

Congratulations to all the winners from the Year End Congress in London, played between Christmas and New Year. Paul Winstone & Roger Harris won the Improvers Pairs run online jointly with Kent...

Congratulations RealBridge!

The three people behind RealBridge, Andy Bowles (Operations Director) Graham Hazel (CEO and CTO) Shireen Mohandes (Commercial Director), ( pictured) all long-standing EBU members, have been given...

Cope and Paske win ACBL event

English internationals Simon Cope and Thomas Paske have won the prestigious Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs, a three-day event run by the American Contract Bridge League and currently being held in Las...

Team Winter wins NTL Season 7

The National Teams League season 7 has now concluded. In Division 1, team "Winter" (Geoff Kenyon, Mike Leese, Liam Sanderson, Sarah Teshome, Daniel Winter, Richard Winter, Steve Wood) finished...

Petersfield Bridge Club A Team win NICKO

The National Interclub Knockout (NICKO) has been won by Petersfield Bridge Club A. The team was Owen Leigh, James Clark, Steve Preston & Mike Kinsey ( pictured). They beat Milton Keynes Bridge...

Lords Commons Match 2024

The annual Lords Commons bridge match took place in the Houses of Parliament on Thu 28 Nov and was won by the Lords ( pictured) by 114-82, which is their 28th win. Next year will be the 50th...

AGM Awards 2024

At the AGM yesterday (Wednesday, 27th November), the EBU recognised various members' contributions to bridge in England. The meeting was held live in London at the Royal National Hotel. For award...

2024 Sim Pairs prize winners drawn

At this week's AGM the 2024 Sim Pairs prize draw took place. Two clubs were drawn from those which entered the EBED Sims and six from those entering the other sims. Each receives £200. The...

Election of Board Members Announced

The EBU AGM took place yesterday, 27th November. The following people were elected/re-elected to the EBU Board: Board There were eight nominations for five positions: The votes received were as...

Vasilev & Mauve win OODGP Swiss Pairs

The latest of the Online One-Day Green Pointed events of 2024 took place on Sunday 24th November. It was won by Kostadin Vasilev & Anton Mauve ( pictured), with a score of 116 VPs. In second...

Hinden Team win Premier League

The 2024 Premier League has been won by the Hinden team of Graham Osborne, Frances Hinden, Chris Jagger, Neil Rosen ( pictured). John Atthey also played in the Hinden team over the first and...

England Women win European Champions' Cup

Congratulations to the England Women's team who won the Gold medal at the recent 2nd Women's Champions' Cup, which took place over the weekend at the Boario Terme, Congress Centre (14th - 16th...

Tollemache Qualifier

The qualifier for the Tollemache Cup, the inter-county championships for teams of eight, was held last weekend 9th-10th November, on RealBridge. There were two groups with four teams from each...